Freedman Family Tree

The lasted Gedcom has been upload – not much has happened in the past month or so apart from birth-marriages and deaths being added when they happened

We still need your input – we can’t do it all on our own – so please check out your families and let us know if anything needs updating or amending – point us is the right direction and we’ll do the rest

As this tree has been going now for many years we have noticed that a lot of pictures are very out of date and if you would like to forward us more up to date ones I’m sure Hyam will help to update them – you know who to send them to and please send at best resolution – we can sort them out at this end

This was short and sweet and hopefully there will be lot to report next update – so watch this space

Happy New Year to everyone – the year end gedcom has been uploaded with lots of  headstone pictures included as well as the odd marriage picture and other obscure bits

We would like to thank everyone who over the past year has contributed even if only in a little way – it really does help – we want to keep this tree alive for our future generations so that they will always know about their ancestors and where they came from

Please keep checking your own families to see how we are doing and if you spot anything that needs amending or updating let us know – more and more records are becoming available on line and most information can be sought from them but it’s nice to have the information direct from family members so that we can make sure the on line genealogy sites have it right

Your feed back would be nice – we hate to think we are doing all this for nothing – you can post comments to this blog if you wish by hitting the comments button

That’s about all I have to say for now – the next update with be around the middle of the month so watch this space!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I did a blog posting a little while back but don’t think the emails got sent so please if you do get this have a look at the previous posting

Danny has just uploaded the latest gedcom – there hasn’t been much happening the last few weeks or so as we’re still waiting for stuff from people who have promised to help but nothing has been forthcoming – I can’t do it all on my own – Liz and I can do the research as long as we have a starting point – so once again please check out your own families and let us know if anything needs amending or further researching

I will be sending out reminder emails to those who offered to help just to jog their memory of what they offered in the next few weeks unless you remember and contact me about it

Three families will be celebrating a barmitzvah  in the next few weeks and wish mazel tov to the Clyne-Knopf and Prais families and it would be nice if we could have a copy of their invitations so we can add them to the relevent children – scan them and send to sylvia

The next update will be towards the middle of the month

The tree is will be having more data added especially to the descendants of David Cofnas thank to Hannah Portal who is a 7th generation descendant (welcome Hannah and your immediate family) who just recently made contact with me – I’m so excited about this as we’ve tried for many years to obtain this information via other members of the Freedman/Cofnas family

Hannah is really excited too about finding us and has offered to get us as much information as she can on all her cousins which include Portal-Aharon-Gordon and Kahan families – so for those of you who recognize these names keep a look out for updates to them in the coming months

On looking at the tree earlier I noticed that Ruth and Morris Weintraub celebrate their golden wedding today and we wish them mazeltov – another mazeltov to Lena Koskie who will be 90 this month – it’s so nice to know we still have some of the older generations with us and that this tree serves as a legacy to them for their future generations

The orignal Cofnas descendants now number 8 generations and I’m pretty sure that some of the extended families their descendants may even be 9 or 10 generation now – so we really have come a long way over the many years this tree has been going

We still want any information or documents that you might have and by now you know where to send them

Keep watching this space!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The latest Gedcom has been upload thanks to Danny and includes 20 new pictures comprising of Headstones and other family pictures – just to name a few family headstones – Cohen – Freedman – Jackson – Messias – Posner and Roth

Please check your family names for further information on any of the above

Once again many thanks to all of you who have contributed – and as I write this I know Gerald Cohen is sending me some of his latest family pictures – once again thank you Gerald

The next update will probably now be at the end of October so keep watching this space

It’s that time of the year when we would like to wish L’shana Tova to all our family and friends wh0 over the past year have helped to keep this tree alive

There have been some sad times when we have learned that some of our loved ones have passed away and lots of good times when new additions have been added either by new births or marriages

Although there haven’t been as many updates as there were last year we are still working hard in the back ground and over the next few weeks more headstone pictures will be added thanks to the walk  around cemeteries done by some of us – it takes a little while to extract all the information off them ie father’s hebrew name and other named family members but it will be well worth it in the long run

Once again many thanks to those who have contributed over the year and we look forward to another fruitful year when our tree will continue to grow – special thanks are really due to Hyam for sorting out pictures – Liz for research – Paul Traynor with help for info from the States – Philip Roth for his recent involvement and Danny for Maintaining this site for us

Next update toward the middle of next month

As promised I’m now letting you know that the month end gedcom has been uploaded to the online version thanks to Danny sorting it out

Over the next few weeks more pictures will be added thanks to John Tresman and Philip Roth who have submitted stuff for us to use once again thank you to anyone who has recently given us information etc – Please keep it coming as it all helps to make a living history for our future generations

Remember to check out your own families every so often as new records are being updated all the time on line and I keep looking for anything else to add – some of which you may never have been aware of  - genealogy can be really exciting

Guess that’s all for now

We hope by now you have had chance to play with the new website – if any of you are having  problems accessing it or finding your way around please let us know and we’ll try and help

This month has been quiet maybe as family and friends have been away but hopefully those of you who promised to help will get back into the swing of things – we can’t do it on our own and you know who you are

The month end Gedcom update is going to me a little later than usual due to a technical hitch which hopefully Danny will sort out in the next few days – as soon as it’s sorted I will update you

Thanks to Danny we have now moved over from PhpGedview to WebTrees – the reason being that PhpGedview has now become out dated and WebTrees although works on the same basis is a lot more user friendly

Nothing else has changed – your access to the online tree remains the same but should you have any problem logging on please contact Sylvia and she’ll sort it out for you

The tree is right up to date and includes some new headstone pictures added from Willesden Cemetery thanks to Philip Roth and Kate Varney who when there this week – they include Civval-Gorman-Hanison and Olins families

We do have one request for all  male members – if  you know the actual date of your Brit Milah and that of your sons – we need to know it so that we can put it against the event of your Hebrew name – all this information would be greatly recieved

One thing that was brought to our attention this week (and we apologies to our none Jewish family members  if it causes any distress) is that Hebrew dates of birth marriages and deaths show against everyone whether Jewish or not – we can’t change individual data

Next update towards the middle of the month – so watch this space and we’ll tell you a little more on some of the new features that are available on WebTrees